Documenting the history of the movement that is encouraging Orlando Health to provide domestic partner benefits, create a diversity office and become culturally competent.
How many voices need to be heard for change to take place?
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Message Removed from Orlando Health Facebook Page

Here is a message someone shared on the Orlando Health Facebook page that was removed this morning. See graphic below. It was the first message on the page. Why are they trying to suppress the truth? They are silencing some people and not others - all sharing the same message.Sounds like they are getting themselves into a possible legal situation since so many people on their Facebook page are saying the same thing. And no reasons are given to the three people who have been silenced (Rick Sanchez, myself and now Andrew Conte). Orlando Health is acting with knee jerk reaction and indiscriminately as they single people out and do what they seem to do best - DISCRIMINATE.

actually this is hit or miss, only some people have to take it off and others do not. A large amount of salaried staff is taking time off without pay while others get to sit around and twittle their thumbs because they don't have to take it off. This place is so unfair in every practice it is hard to keep up and document everything. No on can speak up for fear of retaliation and no one can lose their job right now, managers are forced to monitor for any potential union activity, even coming in on weekends and sitting in the cafeteria. It's so ridiculous. The crap they are telling you about relooking at it next year for domestic partnerships, it ain't gonna happen!

About Orlando Health Diversity Initiative

I am a former Orlando Health team member and current donor in good standing with the organization. For over a year a group of Orlando Health team members, including myself have been encouraging Orlando Health to be more culturally competent. After presenting a formal proposal (which can be viewed as the first post on this blog) to the leadership of Orlando Health, nothing has happened.
So, I decided to start a petition (see second post on this blog) to gather voices in support of the proposal.
Here I post weekly videos 'showing' the growing support for the petition. This blog will end when Orlando Health has a fully functioning diversity/multicultural office, provides opportunities for its team members to meet and discuss diversity/multicultural issues, provides domestic partner health benefits to its team members, updates its team member and patient policies to be in line with true cultural competence and embraces the never ending work in this arena to better fulfill its mission.